Araucarites
Extinct genus of conifer
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Araucarites is an extinct genus of conifer, used to refer to female conifer cones and cone scales that resemble those of the family Araucariaceae.[1] Species assigned to the genus (which may not all belong to Araucariaceae) lived in the Permian to Eocene and have been found worldwide.[2][3]
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| Lithograph of the holotype specimen of Araucarites ooliticum | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Embryophytes |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Gymnosperms |
| Division: | Pinophyta |
| Class: | Pinopsida |
| Order: | Araucariales |
| Family: | Araucariaceae |
| Genus: | †Araucarites Presl 1838 |
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Species
A number of species have been described in Araucarites.
- A. aquiensis[2]
- A. cutchensis[4]
- A. goepperti[2]
- A. ooliticum (Carruthers 1868)[5] Great Oolite Group, Middle Jurassic, England (originally assumed to be a screw pine (Pandanus), and described as Kaidacarpum ooliticum Carruthers 1868[6] renamed Pandanocarpum ooliticum Zigno (1873) comb nov., assigned to Araucarites by Seward in 1917[7])[8][7][9]
- A. pachacuteci[10]
- A. selseyensis[11]
- A. stockeyi
- A. sanctaecrucis
